Skyrunner
Dark side of Pikes Peak
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This is a classic article. Absolutely classic!!!!!
http://www.denverpost.com/lifestyles/ci_3458446
Here are some highlights. I'm making this article my new year's mantra for 2006!!!!!!!
"To be a pilot in those days, you needed to know you were never wrong. You couldn't ever make a mistake," Leslie Holst says. "Pilots didn't have all the technology they have now. They flew by celestial navigation, by the seat of their pants. They had to know what they were doing.
At a refueling stop, he noticed iron filings in the gas tank, and decided to take the long route along the coast rather than fly across jungle. The plane crashed upside down in the water, with sharks circling. "I had to swim to shore several times, first with my wife and baby, then with supplies, and finally with the baby stroller, which we used to walk down this blazing hot beach. I think the Pablum scattered all over the water is what kept the sharks away," he jokes.
Next he went to Brooklyn, flying eager passengers in a seaplane over New York Harbor. Fortunately, none were aboard when the plane fell apart: Leslie Holst recalls his dad later saying the tail of the plane passed him as he went down. What Jack remembers is that the crash knocked out his teeth.
http://www.denverpost.com/lifestyles/ci_3458446
Here are some highlights. I'm making this article my new year's mantra for 2006!!!!!!!
"To be a pilot in those days, you needed to know you were never wrong. You couldn't ever make a mistake," Leslie Holst says. "Pilots didn't have all the technology they have now. They flew by celestial navigation, by the seat of their pants. They had to know what they were doing.
At a refueling stop, he noticed iron filings in the gas tank, and decided to take the long route along the coast rather than fly across jungle. The plane crashed upside down in the water, with sharks circling. "I had to swim to shore several times, first with my wife and baby, then with supplies, and finally with the baby stroller, which we used to walk down this blazing hot beach. I think the Pablum scattered all over the water is what kept the sharks away," he jokes.
Next he went to Brooklyn, flying eager passengers in a seaplane over New York Harbor. Fortunately, none were aboard when the plane fell apart: Leslie Holst recalls his dad later saying the tail of the plane passed him as he went down. What Jack remembers is that the crash knocked out his teeth.
